Vaporizing device.



A. WINTON.

VAPORIZING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED FEB.24,1913.

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VAPORIZING DEVICE. APPLIUATION FILED PBEM, 1913.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

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ALEXANDER -WINTON, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGrNOB- TO WINTON GAS ENGINE AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

VAEORIZING DEVICE.

; rSpecification of Letters Patent.

, Application filed February 24, 1913. Serial No. 750,287.

To all whom it may conce/rn Be it knownI that'l, `ALEXANDER NVINTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, havev invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vaporizing Devices, of which the -following is a specifica tion, reference .being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention. relates to improvements in vaporizing devices.

The object of my invention is to provide a vapo-rizing device for internal combustion engines in .which oilother than gasolene can be very effectively used.

Another object of my invention is tol pro-- vide a` vaporizer of this character' inwhich the amount of oil and air supplied thereto is controlled byV a governorgeared to the engine. Y.

A- stillffurther object ofmy invention vis to provide a simple, cheap and more'eifective vaporizingdevicehaving certain details of structure, hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying draw-ingsztFigure 1 is avertieal sectional view of awaporizer embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side Aelevation ,looking indthe direction. of the arrow Fig. 1.

Referringnow'to the drawings,1 represent-s my improved vaporizing chamber hav ing an outlet 2, leading to the inlet manifold of the engine, not shown. 'With-in the vaporizer is arranged abalancedvalve 3 having beveled 4faces 4, and 5c0peratingwith the valve seats 6, and 7, varranged within the vaporizer. The valve 3 isprovided with two seriesof openings- 8, and 9,. arranged in a circular li-ne, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of' the' drawings.

The lower end of thevaporizing chamber Yl is provided ywith .a movable cap y10, to which is connectedan oil-pipe 11, which communicates With-a tube 12, carried by the inner face thereof, said tube. extending up about midway of the vapor-izer within the' balanced valve 3. The upper end of thevaporizer is provided with a movable cap 13, through whiehloosely passesa tube 14 of a diameter greater than that of the tube 12, and extendsl approximately down to -the lower cap 10. This tube 14, at its upper end, is provided with a series of openings 15 and at its lower end with a series of openings 16,

which communicate with the spaces 17 and 18 above and below the balanced valve 3.

rl-he tube 14, at a point opposite the end ot `the tube 12, 4is provided with a .series of' openings'lf), which communicate with the interior of the blancedvalve 3. Extending through the tube 14, from its upper end, is a valve stem 20, which extends down- 'wardlythrough the tube and having a tapered lower end entering the oil supply tube l2, whereby 'the flow ot' oil from the tube is cont-rolled. This valve-stem 20 is screwthreaded within ythe tube 14, whereby it muy be adjustedi'or regulating th'e flow of oil Jfrom the tube 12.

Carried by the upper face of the vaporizer is a hw 21, to which is pivotally connected a `link 22, and pivotally carried by the lupper end of the link is a yoke 23, which straddles the tube 14 and pivotally connected thereto. 'The yoke 23 is connected to the lever24, bymeans ol a link 25. The lever 24 is connected tothe speed governor '26, in

,such a position 'that when the engine slows down the weights27 move inwardly, as is lwell understood by those skilled in the art.

The outer end of the lever 24 is raised which, through the Imedium of the -link 25, and the yoke 23, the-v tube 14 and the valve-stem 20 are raised allowing more oil to low from the tube 12. .It isl understood that the speed governor is connected directly to the engine.

Connected to the oil tube 11,leading into the lower end'of the vaporizer, is a pipe 23,

`which is yconnected to the float chamber 29,

located 4adjacent 4the "vaporizing chamber.

Located above the vaporizing chamber is an oil tank'BO -and a gasolene tank 31. The oil tank 30 has apipe 32 leading downwardly vand connected toa coupling 33, which has a pipe connection 34 with l. the float chamber 29. :The gasolene tanklikewise hasa pipe 35'tleadingdownwardly and around the vaporizing chamber' and connected to the `coupling 33,whereby either oil orgasolene may enter the Hout .chamber 29. The pipe 32 Iabove the eoupling33 is provided withV a `stopcockl36. IThe pipe35 below thecoupling 33 isflikew-ise provided .with a stopcock 37,;whereby, sis-heretofore stated, either oil or gasolenev ma be allowed to enter the float chamber 29 through the pipe 34.

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Air is allowed to enter the vaporizing chamber through the pipe 38. This pipe through which the air is fed to the vaporizer is coiled within the manifold 39, as shown in Fig. 1, whereby the air is heated and the oil is more quickly and thoroughly vaporized. This air-pipe 38 intermediate the vaporizing chamber and the exhaust manifold is provided with a pipe 40, having a stop-cock 41, whereby cold air mayY be allowed to pass into the vaporizer, or both cold and hot air together may pass thereto. The amount of cold air allowed to pass to the vaporizer chamber is regulated by the valve 41, as clearly shown in Fig. lof the drawings.

In operation the stop-cock 36 is turned so that no oil can pass from the tank 30 to the float chamber, but the cock 37 is turned so Vthat the float chamber is supplied with gaso lene from the tank 31.. The engine is started in the usual manner and a charge ofvapor or explosive mixture is vsucked from the vaporizer 1 through: the pipe 2 to the inlet manifold and thence to the engine cylinders. The oil. passes from the float chamber 29 through the pipe 28 and the pipe 11 to the tube 1:2.. and out through the upper end of the said' tube. When. the engine is at rest it will be.y understood that the speed-governor is such a position that the ,tube 14 and the valve stem are raised so that a full flow ofi oil is allowed through the upper end of the tube .12. After the` engine is started the weights 27 of the speed governor are thrown outwardly lowering' thetube 14 and causing the valve .stem 2O to gradually cut olf the 'ow of oil through the upper end of the tube 12. The air passes through the pipe 38 into the spaces 17 and 18,. above and below the balanced valve 3, through the openings 15 and 16 to the interior of the tube 14 and' come in contact with the oil, as it from the tube 12. The air,voi1 and passes from the tube Ipenings 19in the passes vapor 14 outwardly through o tube directly opposite to t. e end of the oil tube 12 into thehollow balance valve 3. The mixture then passes from the hollow valve through the openings 4 and 5, into from which it is sucked through the pipe 2 to the inlet manifold, as heretofore'described. After the engine has been heated up and the exhaust manifold thoroughly heated the cock 37 is turned ofi shuttingoif the gasolene and the cock 36 is opened so that the oil from the tank 30 passes into the oat chamber, and thence to the vaporizer, as hereto- ,Y sene is readily va fore described. The exhaust manifold 39 having been thoroughly heated by the running of the engine on gasolene, it will be vaporizing chamber is thoroughly heated by the exhaust manifold and thus the oil, preferably, keroorized and the engine edectively run by t e same.

lowers end of the main vaporizing chamber,l

Having thus described my invention, whatv l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is i 1. A vaporizing device of the character described, .comprising a vaporizinglchamber, a oat chamber in communicationv with the the vaporizing chamber and having apipe extending up into the vaporizing chamber, a balanced valve controllin a iow ofoil from the float chamber to thel vaporizingychamber, an oil supply fon the iioatV chamber, a gasolene supply for the float chamber, separate valves controlling the oil and gasolene supply to the float chamber and an airsupply passingthrough the exhaust manifold. with the' vaporizingchamber.

2. A vaporizingrv device of the character described?, comprising-:a VapOriZing-chamber, a hollow balanced valve, means for-l operating saidE valve, an: oil supply forI the said chamber and extendingupwardly within the hollow valve, and means for supplying air within the' hollow' balanced valve at the point of entrance of the oilk thereto, and means for controllingy the air tothe hollow balanced valve..

3. A vaporizing device of the` character described, comprisinor a vaporizing chamber, a hollow balanced vzve within the chamber, an oil supply entering the lower end of the 'vaporizing chamber and passing upwardly into the hollow balanced valve, a tube surrounding the oil supply pipe and extending through the hollow balanced valve, and having openings in communication with the valve at a point opposite the upper end of the oil supply pipe, and means for supplying the tube with air at its upper and lower ends discharging it through the openings in the hollow valve', said valve having two series of openings discharging` the oil and air into the vaporizing chamber.

4. A vaporizing device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a gasolene supply for said chamber, an oil supply pipe extending through the lower end of the chamber and upwardly to a point about the center thereof, a balanced hollow valve surrounding the' oil supply pipe, a tube surrounding the oil supply pipe and extending through the hollow balanced valve and having openings communicating with an air supply, said tube having openings at a point opposite the upper end of the supand communicating plypipc and communicating with the hollow balanced valve, said valve having two series of openings adapted to discharge the oil and vapor into the vaporizing chamber.

5. A vaporizing device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, an oil supply pipe for the chamber and extending upwardly 'within the vaporizing chamber, a balanced hollow valve surrounding the oil supply pipe, a tube extending vN50* through the hollow balanced valve and surrounding the oil supply pipe and having openings above and below the valve, said tube` having openings at a point opposite the upper end of the oil supply pipe and communicating with the hollow balanced valve, said balanced valve having two series of openings to discharge the oil and vapor into the vaporizing chamber, and a valve carried by the tube and extending downwardly therethrough and controlling the supply of oil from the upper end of the oil supply pipe.

6. A vaporizing device of the 'character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, an air supply chamber in communication with the vaporizing chamber at its upper and lower ends, valve seats arranged around said communications, a double hollow balanced valve resting on said valve seats and having two series of openings at its ends communicating with the vaporizing chamber, an oil supply for said vaporizing chamber extending through the lower end thereof and passing into thebalanced valve, a tube carried by the valve and having a series of openings at its upper and lower ends communicating with the air chamber, said tube having a series of openings at a point opposite the upper end of the oil supply pipe, a valve adjustably secured in the tube and adapted to enter the upper end of the oil supply pipe and controlling the flow of oil therefrom, and means controlled by the governor for raising and lowering the balanced valve, whereby theoil supply from the oil supply pipe is controlled.

7. Al vaporizing device of the character described, comprisin a vaporizin chamber, an air supply cham er at one si e thereof and having communication at its upper and lower ends with the vaporizing chamber,

. valve seats surrounding said communications, a hollow double balanced valve resting on said seats, an oil supply pipe extending upwardly through the air vchamber and within the hollow balanced valve, a tube carried by the balanced valve extending therethrough and having openings communicating with the air-chamber above and below the valve, said tube having openings at a point opposite the upper end of the oil supply pipe, a valve carried by the tube and extending intovthe upper end of the oil supply pipe for controlling the supply of oil therefrom, means for adjustino said valve within the tube, a yoke surrounding the tube on the outside of the vaporizer and pivoted at one end, a lever connected to the said governor of the engine and having a link connection between its upper end and the yoke, whereby the slowing down of the engine forces the lever downwardly and raises the tube and the valve for allowing more oil to be supplied to the vaporizing chamber.

8. A vaporizing'device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a double balanced valve within the chamber, an oil supply extending within the double balanced valve, an air supply for one end of the chamber and adapted to pass through the double balanced valve, a valve carried by the double balanced valve and adapted to control the oil supply, and means operated by the governor on the engine for operating said valve, whereby the oil and air supply are simultaneously controlled.

9. Avaporizing device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a double balanced hollow valve controlling the air supply through said chamber, an oil supply extending upwardly within the hcllow balanced valve and terminating midway its end, means carried by the balanced valve for controlling the oil supply, and means for discharging the air from one side of the chamber through the hollow balanced valve across the open end of the oil supply, and means connected to the opposite side of the vaporizing chamber for conveying the vapor therefrom to the ,manifold of an engine.

10. A vaporizing device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a hollow balanced valve dividing the vaporizing chamber into two compartments, an oil supply extending upwardly through the vaporizing chamber and terminating in the hollow balanced valve midway its length, an air supply to the vaporizing chamber, a valve carried by the hollow balanced valve and controlling the oil supply, and means governed by the engine for controlling the hollow balanced valve, whereby the oil and air supply is automatically governed.

11. A vaporizing device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a hollow valve within said chamber, an oil supply dischargin within said hollow valve, an air supply or the center of said valve said valve having air discharge openings at both ends substantially as shown and described.

12. A vaporizing device of the character described, comprislng' a vaporizing chamber, a hollow balanced valve within said chamber and oil supply discharging into said hollow valve at a point midway its hollow ends, an air supply for the center of the valve and said valve having discharge openings at both ends for discharging the mixture supply, and automatic means for controlling said hollow double balanced valve.

14. A vaporizing device of the character described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a hollow double balanced valve within said chamber, an oil supply discharging at the center of the said hollow double balanced valve, an air supply at the center of said valve, saidvalve having discharge openings at the ends arranged to be closed when the valve is seated, means carried by the valve for controllingithe oil supply discharge, and

ment of the hollow valve simultaneously controlls the air and oil.

16. A` vaporizing device of the character animee described, comprising a vaporizing chamber, a hollow valve within said chamber, an oil supply discharging within said hollow valve, valve seats at both ends of the valve and upon which the same is adaptedv to rest, means carried by the valve for controlling the oil supply, and automatic means for moving the valve, whereby the air and oil supplies are simultaneously controlled.

l A vaporizing device of the character described, 'comprising a vaporizing chamber, a hollow valve within said chamber and having its,I upper and lower ends resting upon the seats within. the chamber, an oil supply in the center of said valve, said valve having discharge openings adapted to be ,closed by the seats, means carried by the valve for controllin the oil supply, and

means for moving t `e valve whereby the4 valve is moved for simultaneouslly controlling the oil-supply and the disc arge of mixture from the chamber.

ln testimony whereof l hereunto aihx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER WINDFUN. Witnesses HAROLD B. ANDERSON, BYRON B. Bnocnwar. 

